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We now have our first trailer for The Acolyte, the upcoming Disney Plus sequence that takes place a protracted, very long time earlier than any present Disney Star Wars content material, again when the Jedi have been nonetheless quite a few. Although…somebody needs to vary that.
The primary trailer for The Acolyte exhibits Amandla Stenberg’s Sith(?) warrior looking down and killing Jedi, making an attempt to assassinate one with a small little knife which appears a bit…odd, however I’m certain there’s a technique to the insanity.
Later, we do see a crimson saber flying round and a pressure blast knocking a complete crew of Jedi off their toes, although it’s not proven explicitly that it’s Stenberg doing that injury.
On the opposite facet of the equation is Lee Jung-jae’s Sol, a Jedi grasp who seems to have had Stenberg as a scholar, and is now tasked with stopping her Jedi homicide spree. Apparently, a personality named Aniseya is proven, the place that title is derived from historical Greek, the place it means “unequal, uneven,” which looks like not a lot of a coincidence on condition that she is speaking about attempting to stability the ability between the Jedi and everybody else.
Right here’s the official description for The Acolyte, which is able to debut with two episodes on its June 4 launch date:
“In The Acolyte, an investigation right into a stunning crime spree pits a revered Jedi Grasp (Lee Jung-jae) towards a harmful warrior from his previous (Amandla Stenberg). As extra clues emerge, they journey down a darkish path the place sinister forces reveal all is just not what it appears,”
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The present is run by Leslye Headland of Russian Doll and Single Drunk Feminine fame. You could have seeing Amandla Stenberg in Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies, The Hate U Give or manner, manner again when as Rue in The Starvation Video games. Jung-Jae Lee is after all from Netflix megahit, Squid Video games. You possibly can catch a glimpse of Carrie-Ann Moss in there. The present additionally has Dafne Eager of Logan fame, now seven years older than when that movie was launched. In all probability 8-9 because it was filmed.
It appears cool? On the very least it appears completely different. A brand new story in a brand new period involving Jedi and Sith and we don’t have to listen to the names Skywalker, Solo, Organa, Kenobi, Vader, any of it. One thing model new seems like what the Star Wars universe wants at this time second, and I’m actually wanting ahead to seeing it in simply over two months.
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